Primal Endurance Quotes

“What’s 30 or 60 or 90 days in the scope of your life?’ Experimenting with a potentially healthier approach can’t hurt, and it might just change your life!”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Believe it or not, going out and doing four to six hundred-meter sprints is a perfectly respectable workout for an endurance athlete. That’s only a couple minutes total of hard work,”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“MSP workouts involve full-body functional movements like deadlifts, squats, leg presses, and vertical jumps. MSP workouts feature heavy weights, few reps, and more rest. By doing a succession of mini-sets, you “go max or go home.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“The Primal Essential Movements offer a simple, entry-level way to include strength training in your lifestyle. They entail conducting pushups, pullups, squats, and planks on a regular basis, with more attention to paid to formal workouts during the intensity training phases.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“That means to push very heavy weight, repeatedly, and to constantly strive to elevate both your baseline numbers and the total weight lifted at the workout—until you start to reach a natural limit relative to your competitive goals. This will deliver improvements in strength and subsequent improvements in endurance performance, and also maximize the hormonal, anti-aging benefits of the workout.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Maximum Sustained Power workouts are much less taxing on the cardio endurance component and instead focus on going for max power or going home. Literally, you end your mini-sets when you can’t lift the heavy bar again due to accumulated fatigue. Or, in the case of vertical jumps or calibrated exercise equipment, you stop the set when you fall materially short of your baseline absolute power performance standard that you started the workout with.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“if you do a single set of pullups each day, you most likely won’t get any bigger, but such a habit will definitely contribute to getting you stronger.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Lift something heavy most every day, even if it’s just your weary body up to the pullup bar a few times.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Primal Essential Movements—four of the most simple and effective exercises ever known to humankind: pushups, pullups, squats, and planks. Collectively, these exercises work all the muscles in your body and promote functional fitness for a broad application of athletic and daily life activities.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Primal Essential Movements—four of the most simple and effective exercises ever known to humankind: pushups, pullups, squats, and planks.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“When you eat right and sleep like a primal champ, your body does a good job recovering and getting stronger from bouts of appropriate stress like an occasional tough workout.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“WE HUMANS ARE THE ONLY MAMMALS THAT SUFFER FROM CHRONIC ILL HEALTH. ONE CRITIC SUGGESTS IT’S BECAUSE WE ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS CLEVER ENOUGH TO MANUFACTURE OUR OWN FOOD—AND STUPID ENOUGH TO EAT IT.” —DR. TIMOTHY NOAKES”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“The “active couch potato syndrome” is an actual observed scientific phenomenon whereby devoted fitness enthusiasts—who conduct daily workouts but live otherwise inactivity-dominant lifestyles—are not immune to the cellular dysfunction and metabolic disease patterns driven by inactivity. Statistics referenced by James Levine, MD, PhD, a Mayo Clinic researcher, international expert on obesity, and author of Get Up! Why Your Chair is Killing You and What You Can Do About It,”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Stacking an MSP strength training with a sprint session can deliver performance benefits via the concept of postactivation potentiation. You literally “pump up” your muscles and central nervous system by challenging muscles under load prior to sprinting.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“MSP workouts involve full-body functional movements like deadlifts, squats, leg presses, and vertical jumps. MSP workouts feature heavy weights, few reps, and more rest. By doing a succession of mini-sets, you “go max or”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Maximum Sustained Power (MSP) training is a novel approach that improves absolute power,”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“To conduct an MSP workout, you’ll lift your new five-rep max weight 180 pounds three or four times, then rest for ten to twenty seconds. Then you’ll do three more reps at 180, rest a bit, do two more at 180, rest a bit, do two more at 180, rest a bit, do two more at 180, rest a bit, then perhaps only muster up one rep on your final “mini-set.” That, friends, is a beautiful Maximum Sustained Power workout! In contrast, consider the typical approach of trying to execute your five-rep max deadlift weight consecutively, with no rest break. You might hit five reps the first set, another five reps on the second set, and then be crapped out like a Vegas high roller.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“He goes on to make a specific recommendation that running two to five days per week for a total of ten to fifteen miles, at around a ten-minute-per-mile pace, is ideal for bulletproof cardiovascular health.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!

“Once fat-adapted, Intermittent Fasting (I.F.) can be used to accelerate fat loss, fine tune insulin sensitivity, and improve cellular repair for an anti-aging, immune-boosting effect.”
― Mark Sisson, Primal Endurance: Escape chronic cardio and carbohydrate dependency and become a fat burning beast!